Differential: disassemble and assemble — VW
Differential: disassemble and assemble on VW: 12 steps. What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
Workshop procedure for VW — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
- Renewed: sleeves
📋 Procedure
- Unthread the screws (arrows) that fasten the tube clamps
- Remove the pipes from the converter case.
- When assembling the tubes, fasten them to the case up to the top by pressing with your hands
- Lubricate the driving washers from the satellites and place them over the satellites.
- Place the satellites, fit their axle
- Fit new sleeves.
- Lubricate the driving washers from the planetary gears and place them over these gears.
- Place the threaded parts in the planetary gears.
- Place the planetary gears shifted in 180° and tilt them (arrow).
- Place the extractor hook in the transmission case notches.
- Place the tightening tool 3002 over the differential case.
- Fit the conical roller bearing internal ring up to the top in the differential case.
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Who makes these pages, and how
TorqFix was built by a mechanic — after a 2,700 km drive with five roadside repairs that no diagnostic tool could explain.
The figures on this page come from manufacturer workshop documentation and are shown as they are. The page is assembled automatically from that data — it is not written by an AI. The AI works in the chat, where it answers for your specific car. It writes nothing here.
Variants of the same model differ. Cross-check torque against the factory manual for your engine before final tightening.
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